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my domain is in a dns black hole or something...

I bought my own little domain (jaith.net) some time ago so that I could always have the same email address and also host a few http resources. Lately, mail sent to my domain has been bouncing. Today the message was:

Code:

Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:



  Recipient address: [obscured for my protection]@jaith.net

  Reason: Illegal host/domain name found

I tried a tracert to my domain and it times out after 30 hops. What is the deal here? Is there something wrong with my DNS or something? Why is my domain *so* remote? I've done some tracert to the most obscure domains I can think of and it's never more than 16 hops.

dig jaith.net returns:

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# dig jaith.net



; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> jaith.net

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31892

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;jaith.net.                    IN      A



;; ANSWER SECTION:

jaith.net.              600    IN      A      67.14.192.55



;; Query time: 136 msec

;; SERVER: {removed for security}

;; WHEN: Tue Jan 26 18:40:48 2010

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43

But ping goes into a black-hole

Code:

# ping 67.14.192.55

PING 67.14.192.55 (67.14.192.55) 56(84) bytes of data.

From {removed for security}: icmp_seq=0 Redirect Network(New nexthop: {removed for security})

From {removed for security}: icmp_seq=1 Redirect Network(New nexthop: {removed for security})



--- 67.14.192.55 ping statistics ---

21 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 19999ms

A couple of questions:

Does the server that you are hosting this on have a static IP address?
Is the IP address correct (as shown in dig output)?
When did this last work?

1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) It works most of the time, but the occasional mail gets bounced.

The server is configured to ignore ping. I just did a tracert on the ip 67.14.192.55 and I also get 30 hops before timeout. So I guess then that this is not a DNS issue, but some kind of weird network thing. What the heck?